List of Famous people with last name Gikandi

Simon Gikandi

First Name Simon
Last Name Gikandi
Born on September 30, 1960 (age 65)

Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.

Know him/her \
Don't know him/her
    index: 1x 0.016635894775391s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.01301097869873s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.012974977493286s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0084531307220459s
router_page: 1x 0.0030519962310791s
headline: 2x 0.0022289752960205s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0020990371704102s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0020627975463867s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0019819736480713s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.00028395652770996s
head-facts: 1x 0.00026297569274902s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00023508071899414s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.8119812011719E-5s
qids: 1.5x 1.0967254638672E-5s
related: 1x 3.0994415283203E-6s
using-file-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
using-qids-cache: 1x 9.5367431640625E-7s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-06-12 12:32:06)  -----